The Climate Museum
Mission is "to employ the sciences, art, and design to inspire dialogue and innovation that address the challenges of climate change, moving solutions to the center of our shared public life and catalyzing broad community engagement.

Kanopy Featured

"Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" -- or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage.

However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Walker (DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT, COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit." 100 min.

Eco Art: A short list of recommended readings

The following basic list of books, articles and links provides a good start for those who would like to familiarize themselves with art, artists, history and theory influential in the current upsurge in the visual arts to green our planet. The revolutionary 1960's brought many visual artists to focus on the environment, but most retained the old paradigm of nature as an object. It wasn't until the 1990's that the art world began to address a caring relationship with non-human nature and the term 'eco art' was introduced.

ManualNeal, Lucy, et. al. Playing for Time: Making Art As if the World Mattered. London: Oberon Books, 2015
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An inspirational and practical activist manual collaboratively produced by 64 creatives for "reimagining the world in which life on Earth is cherished and sustained."

Forum: Eco-tistical Art in Art Journal
Vol. 65, no1. Spring 2006, 54-81.
A special section reporting on and responding to art and environmental practice issues discussed during a daylong series of events and conversations at the 2005 Annual Conference of the College Art Association in Atlanta in 2005. Organized by Linda Weintraub and supported by Creative Capital.

Systems thinking

Gablik, Suzi. The Reenchantment of Art. New York : Thames and Hudson , 1991.
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A milestone in art criticism calling for a revolution in art toward socially conscious and ecological art.

ground works: Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University, 2005.HUNT STACKS-4 N6494 .E6 G7 2005
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, October 14 - December 2005. With Grant Kester, Chief Curator and Patrick Deegan, New Media Curator, University of California, San Diego.
Matilsky, Barbara C. Fragile Ecologies: Contemporary Artists' Interpretations and Solutions. New York : Rizzoli International, 1992. Published in conjunction with the Queens Museum of Art exhibition.
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Outlines some well-known and emerging artists working in the environment in the 1990s.

Oakes, Baile, ed. Sculpting With the Environment. New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995.
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A detailed book on artists working in the environment and their methods with ecology in mind. Includes two critical introductory essays outlining new paradigms for art and science: Suzi Gablik. The Ecological Imperative; Fritjof Capra, Physicist. The New Vision of Reality (reprinted from Elmwood Quarterly, Fall 1992).

Theory
Cronin,William. The Trouble with Wilderness ; or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature in Uncommon Ground:Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996, 69-90.
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An excellent introductory reading which illuminates how humans have developed constructs about non-human nature and how that has shaped and skewed our culture and thinking.

Academic art databases

There is no one single academic database on art and ecology or art and the environment, but the following arts article databases available to Carnegie Mellon users are possible starting points. Ask if you have questions.

Nexus Series: Strange Times: Earth in the Age of the Human
Actors, writers, scientists, and musicians will help us explore our strange times and even stranger future by reimagining what we mean by nature, technology, and, ultimately, being human.
View the Strange Times video trailer.

The Distance Plan is an open-access online journal (2012-present) and catalogue of works and projects of artists, writers and designers to promote critical discussion of climate change within the arts. The Distance Plan Project was founded by Abby Cunnane and Amy Howden-Chapman.

A Community-Powered Learning Library and Alternative News Center For People Who Want To Change The WorldLinks to over 3000 films available online for free. The goal of this resource is "to provide citizens of the world with the information and perspectives essential for creating a more just, sustainable and democratic society." An extensive subject list allows you to focus in on your areas of interest.

On May 11, 2017 a tthe Sea Side Beach Resort of Naic, Cavite, Greenpeace Philippines and a Philippine-Japanese creative agency, Dentsu Jayme Syfu with local artists launched a 73 x 10 ft. sculpture of a dead whale made out of plastic waste in a campaign to raise awareness of the criticality of plastic waste pollution. It was inspired from the 30 beached whales found in the shores of Europe just last year. One of them was found in the Philippines last December in Samal, Davao.